Expression of green fluorescent protein fused to magnetosome proteins in microaerophilic magnetotactic bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4944-4953

  Lang, Claus ^a   Schüler, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOMINERALIZATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FORMING; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IRON ORES; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MAGNETITE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OXIDE MINERALS; OXYGEN; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTEINS; SOAPS (DETERGENTS);

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLINE PROPERTIES; FLUOROPHORE; FORMING CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONAL MOIETIES; FUSION PROTEINS; GENE FUSIONS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GROWTH CONDITIONS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAGNETIC NANO-PARTICLES; MAGNETOSOME; MAGNETOSOMES; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; PHOSPHOLIPID BI LAYERS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REASONABLE RATES; SALT CONCENTRATIONS; SUB-CELLULAR LOCALIZATION;

FLUORESCENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DETERGENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MAGNETITE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL ORGANELLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; MAGNETITE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMINERALIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE FUSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAGNETOSOME; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 49449106164     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00231-08     Document Type: Article

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